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Follies, The Golden House, Wind River, Tin Star, Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?

Stephen Sondheim's Follies with Imelda Staunton at the National Theatre, The Golden House by Salman Rushdie, Wind River, Tin Star on Sky TV and Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?

Stephen Sondheim's Follies starring Imelda Staunton and directed by Dominic Cooke is staged at the National's Olivier Theatre for the first time. The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies", a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

Salman Rushdie's new novel The Golden House invokes literature, pop culture and cinema to spin the story of the American zeitgeist over the last 8 years. The novel opens with the inauguration of Barack Obama and closes with the election of President Trump and is about a wealthy immigrant family in Manhattan told from the perspective of a young, aspiring film maker who lives opposite them.

Writer/director Taylor Sheridan's Wind River stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. The last in a trilogy of films which includes Hell or High Water and Sicario.

Tin Star is a ten part British drama series created by Rowan Joffe on Sky Atlantic starring Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks. Police detective Jim Worth is the new police chief of a small town in the Rocky Mountains, where he has moved with his family to escape his past. The influx of migrant workers from a new big oil company, headed by the mysterious Mrs. Bradshaw, forces Worth to confront the resulting wave of crime that threatens his town.

Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? is a new exhibtion at Wellcome Collection in London, the first major show to explore the relationship between graphic design and health and includes 200 exhibits, including the rarely displayed emblems of the Red Cross, Red Crescent and the Red Crystal.

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Follies

Follies

is at the National Theatre in London until 3 January 2018

Image: Johan Persson


Wind River

Wind River

Wind River is in cinemas now, certificate 15

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

is available in hardback and ebook now


Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?

Can Graphic Design Save Your Life?

is at Wellcome Collection in London until 14 January 2018

Image: 聽Tiger, Hospital Sant Joan de D茅u, Barcelona 漏 Rubio Arauna Studio, Rai Pinto Studio. Picture by Vict貌ria Gil


Tin Star

Tin Star

begins on Sky Atlantic at 9pm on 7 September


Broadcast

  • Sat 9 Sep 2017 19:15

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